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One thing I liked, and I don't think it's been mentioned yet, is how he handled descriptions. Rather than having pages and pages of world building things only warranted detail if the characters weren't used to them. I don't think Shanka got a proper description until the second book because the only people who encountered them until then had been dealing with them their whole lives and didn't need to stop and marvel at how they looked. Similarly, Logen doesn't really get a proper description until he encounters people who've never met him before because the story's from his point of view and he doesn't care what he looks like. Jezal, on the other hand, is always preening about how good looking he is cause he's vain. Wow, that sounded like a book report... anyway. I liked it.
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I view the endings as being like in The Wire, where they're not fairy tale, or even happy but very satisfying. Logen's ending in particular was a great way to finish his story and although not classically happy was very fitting.
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Jan 10, 2011 05:44
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Hughmoris posted:In the trilogy, was Logen's age ever mentioned? I always thought of him being in his mid 30's. I'm rereading it, it is and he is.
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Mar 5, 2011 01:29
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You really don't need guns to be a western. It's all about frontiers and wilderness and such. Even when it isn't, it's pretty easy to do a western without guns - Yojimbo for example. Abercrombie talked a lot about reading and watching classic war movies and books to prepare for The Heroes and there weren't exactly Union soldiers with machine guns in the book.
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Mar 5, 2011 11:08
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Kneel Before Zog posted:So for those who read both stand-alone novels. Which one reads better? They're pretty different. Best Served Cold is a serial revenge novel while The Heroes is one battle from many different perspectives. That said I think the Heroes is better written.
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Apr 7, 2011 17:27
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Clinton1011 posted:What is this The Dresden Files, Glokta doesnt wear a hat. What? He totally does! Every time he's outside he's described as wearing a wide brimmed hat. I've always pictured him looking like a member of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Jun 4, 2011 11:06
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Honestly, they're all really fast reads. I got them all on my Kindle and was honestly shocked at how thick they were when I saw physical copies in a bookstore.
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Jun 30, 2011 13:25
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Yeah, the only time I've really felt like an author decided "gently caress it, let's just torture the main character" was in Robin Hobb's Assassins trilogy. That just piled poo poo on until it drove me right out of the story.
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Aug 13, 2011 00:41
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Has that much time passed? I always got the impression he was in his mid-late 30's but had done a lot of hard living. The North seems like a place to age fast and die young.
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Aug 21, 2011 02:00
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True, but if there was ever a character who'd do well in a fantasy Unforgiven William Munney type role...
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Mar 20, 2012 12:41
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BSC spoiler: I'm re-reading it and still can't find confirmed incest - are people reading into the rumors that are around in the book or is it expicitly stated somewhere? I feel like I keep skipping a part by accident.
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If anyone's interested Joe's doing a review of his own books on his blog as a way to help his editing on Red Country. It's interesting reading him critique his own work, especially as he picks on exactly the good and bad points that people here notice as they read them. It bodes really well for Red Country being pretty drat good! http://www.joeabercrombie.com/news/
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